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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. NOV. 16, ISM.
THE FOREIGN TEURRT.
One of the most sensational features of
the monetary complications, and one that
affords a probable explanation of the string
ency at London -which was tbe legitimate
cause of tbo trouble on this side of tbe ocean,
is the announcement of the embarrassment
of 3aring Bros. This firm has for a gener
ation been a synonym for stability and
world-wide credit To learn that it is in a
position where it has to be supported until
its affairs can be liquidated, is an indication
that the foundations of credit in England
must be badly disturbed.
Tbe statement of liabilities at ?75,OoO,000,
and of assets at nearly 5100,000,000 indi
cates what a colossal affair this is. It is
reassuring to learn that tbe liabilities are
protected by the Bank of England, the
Rothschilds and others, and that the
assets will leave a balance of about
E20;000,000. "While such statements
are generally offered in mitigation
of any great failure, the protection of the
Barings' creditors by tbe financial powers
of London will undoubtedly prevent the
universal panic if the suspension were
allowed to take place in the ordinary way.
"While, of course, such an event could not
fail to cause a flurry in stocks, this dispo
sition of the firm's affairs will prevent the
complication extending into business
circles.
Indeed, the failure shows most conclu
sively how entirely separated from the
causes which affect our industry and com
merce are the real sources of all the financial
troubles for tbe past week or two. The
dispatches state that the Bank of England
has known of the embarrassment of the
Barings for some time, and the course
which it has taken to fortify itself has
largely caused the stringency in London.
Of course such a stringency must affect
stocks simply by reason of the increased
sales on tbe part of foreign holders. This
depression was exaggerated by the money
kings and manipulators for their private
ends; but if tbe stock flurry here has any
legitimate cause, it is one so far removed
from the business of the country as London
and South America.
Indeed, the cause of Earing Bros." cm-
Darrassment only emphasized this separa
tion of the trouble from the business inter
ests of tbe United States. They have simply
permitted themselves to be overloaded with
the bonds of the Argentine Republic, where
tbe inflation which, for years, has lelt our
kite-flying of 1873 completely in the shade,
reached a sudden collapse some months ago.
Under such circumstances the failure was
to be expected; although the banking policy
which would peril its existence by tying it
to so plain a case of inflation as the Argen
tine finances, is not what was to be expected
from a house with the traditions of the Bar
ings. The conclusion is not only plain that there
is nothing in the monetary complications
which either aflects or is affected by the
operations of industry and commerce in the
United States, bnt the fact is also pointed
out that while English investments in the
United States are not always completely sat
isfactory, they would have been much bet
ter than the millions which tbe Barings
have dumped in South America. Even tbe
wildest operations of our corporate manipu
lators, or the most ruthless stock watering
ot the syndicate trust promoters, could not
have saddled the English with as worthless
securities as the Argentine bonds on which
one of the leading firms of the world staked
its existence and lost.
England has just had one of its periodical
fevers for running alter wildcat invest
ments, and it is now paying the regular pen
alty of discovering that its investments are
waste paper.
THE PARXELL CASE.
The failure of Parnell to appear in the
O'Shea divorce suit at London yesterday,
taken in connection with his former positive
denials, was evidently iu the nature of a
surprise all round. His opponents, both in
tbe Courts and in politics, as welt as per
sonal, will, of course, make the most of it
Already they report his retirement from
the leadership of the Irish party in Parlia
ment But so far as the merits of the Irish
question are concerned, they do not depend
merely upon one person.
"Whatever be tbe ultimate personal posi
tion of Parnell, the Irish home rule cause
is sure to be ably and vigorously led, not
only by its own members, but also by tbe
Grand Old Man, &Ir. Gladstone, who, at
least, the public may be privileged to be
lieve, is free even from tbe danger of that
peculiar litigation to which so many other
British statesmen, without respect to party,
seem to be liable.
BLAINE'S GREATEST OPPORTUNITY.
James G. Blaine, whose reputation for
smartness has been celebrated in song and
story until the whole world knows of it,
seems to have now the opportunity of his
life. At a time when the Democrats over the
country are shouting that the McKinley bill
will not stand the test of trial, and when
such Republicans as Speaker Beed, and a
few other leaders, have been venting their
spleen againet Blaine and the Senate for
the reciprocity amendment, it will be a
great triumph for Sir. Blaine if he can so use
the reciprocity powers vested in the Presi
dent as to make the new order of things a
distinguished success.
The reports from "Washington that Mr.
Blaine is engaged in constant study of the
problem of trade with Cuba and with the
South American republics, and that he is
in daily conference with the official repre
sentatives of these places, will more than
ever at this juncture direct the eyes of the
Republican party to him. The resources of
the Secretary in this matter of reciprocity
the grasp which he has of the subject was
strikingly illustrated by telegrams in yes
terday's Dispatch, showing how thor
oughly the mercantile interests of Cuba
feel themselves at the mercy of the United
States, and how eager they are to have reci
procity laws agreed to by Spain in short order,
giving Mr. Blaine all the free market he
may ask: for American products. Like
causes are apt to produce like effects in
South America. Those countries, which
have been putting an import duty on Ameri
can commodities while getting their own
into the United States on especially
favorable terms, are now confronted by the
power and the purpose of the Federal ad
ministration to retaliate to their alarming
disadvantage.
"What a thoroughly well-posted man like
Blaine can make out of a situation of this
sort may not be measured in a moment As
things stand he has absolute power with his
party. It is not given him by direct vote,
to be sure, but efficient causes operate ex
actly to the same end. The rival leadership
of other Republicans has been practically
discredited by the results of the elections.
Mr. Harrison no longer hesitates in which
direction to turn; and the rank and file of
the Republican party have not at any time
ceased to look to Blaine as the most capable
man for framing and vigorously carrying
out a successful national policy.
Under the circumstances it is easy to see
how great is the opportunity which has
shaped itself for the man from Maine. Both
supporters and opponents will look with
great interest to the use he makes of it
OHIO'S SALUTARY LESSON.
Among the lessons taught by the recent
elections, the instruction of the single and
exceptional Democratic defeat in the State
of Ohio should not be forgotten. The
lesson is important, because under reversed
conditions it points to the same conclusion
as the other results, namely, that the party
which makes a reckless and dishonest use
of its power invites tbe reproof of the
people.
A year ago the Ohio Democrats obtained
complcta control of the State Government
and placed their State in the doubtful list
Had they used their power discreetly and
honestly they might have maintained that
position; but the fact that they reproduced
in an aggravated form the worst features of
reckless and dishonest partisanship is
enough to explain their defeat in an elec
tion which was elsewhere remarkable for
an overwhelming Democratio victory.
That they themselves prepared their own
reverse will be apparent from a brief sum
mary of the leading features of Democratic
control.
Having gained the power to elect a Dem
ocratio Senator, the first thing the Ohio
Democrats did was to select for that posi
tion a representative of the worst abuses of
corporate and stock watering manipulation,
a man whose sole qualification for Senato
rial honors was the backing of an immense
fortune. Thus they at once took the bur
den upon them which has been often charged
upon their opponents of subservience to
money in politics, and proved that they were
as bad as the worst of their antagonists.
Their next act was to perpetrate an undis
guised Congressional gerrymander of the
State. They rightly charged the Repub
licans with unfairness iu maintaining an ap
portionment that gave them a representa
tion in Congress far in excess of the propor
tion of tbe popular vote, and then made
haste to advertise the tact that they were as
wantonly unfair and dishonest by a gerry
mander which transferred the discrepancy
to the other side and exaggerated it Tney
gained some Congressmen by this act, but
the proof that they lost popular support by
it appears in the fact that they gained less
than they expected.
Finally they permitted a corrupt Demo
cratic, ring to maintain its rule in Cincin
nati through the perpetuation of vicious
legislation which took the control of that
city's government out of tbe hands
of the city. "When the Governor
rightly attempted to rectify this wrong a
portion of the Democrats hung back on the
plea that the exposure would injure the
party. Here we have the typical partisan
stupidity which fails to see that the inj ury
is wrought by the corruption itself, and that
the party which most promptly punishes its
own evil-doers will gain the most popular
support
In short the Ohio Democrats, or those
who controlled its legislation, marked them
selves as reckless, unfair, and subservient
to corporate influence. By so doing the
party fairly earned the defeat which was
administered it, while all around it the
Democrats of other States were winning an
unexampled victory. The lesson is a salu
tary one, that it pays a party in power to be
fair, conservative and to look only to the
public interest, while the regulation politi
cal devices for protracting party power are
sure to earn defeat
GOULD'S LATEST CAMPAIGN.
It is somewhat startling to learn that one
of the chief results off he recent stock flurry
is that Mr. Jay Gould has acquired enough
Union Pacific stock; to control, in conjunc
tion with the Ames party of Boston and tbe
Rockefellers, the management of that cor
poration. An interview has appeared in
which Mr. Gould is represented as declaring
this fact and asserting that Mr. Charles
Francis Adams will be ousted from the
Presidency of the road. The truth of this
interview is denied by Mr. Gould, but tbe
habits of this wary gentleman with regard
to public assertions and tbe denial of them
ure such that Mr. Gould's denial is regarded
as about as good evidence of what he denies
as his affirmation would be.
Mr. Gould's record in connection with the
Union Pacific is already a somewhat famous
one. The results of the notorious trans
actions by which Mr. Gould during his
previous control saddled that corporation
with an immense load of debt, out of which
he pocketed the neat little sum of $30,000,
000, are preserved in the reports of the
Government investigation. Having milked
that property dry and finally reached the
point where it was necessary for him to re
store the corporation to come share of public
confidence, Mr. Gould conceived the idea of
putting Mr. Charles Francis Adsms in
charge oi tbe road and to advertise himself
as having undergone a change of heart
The result of Mr. Adams' management,
which, while far from ideal, was at least
free from the feature of undisguisedly rob
bing the stockholders, was such as to re
store the stock to a standing which enabled
Mr. Gould to close out all his holdings, and
after other pleasant little deals, to stand
ready to repeat the operation once more.
It is interesting to learn from the reported
Gould interview that "Mr. Adams has
been managing the property after a fashion
which sets business control wholly at
naught" It is true that Mr. Adams' man
agement has not been of tbe fashion ex
emplified by the famous Kansas Pacific
deal of Messrs, Gould, Dillon and Sage.
His policy, while it has been unable to
throw off all tbe idiosyncrasies of railroad
management, has been to increase the earn
ing power of the stockholders' property in
stead of plundering it for the benefit of the
managers. That Mr. Gould should be un
able to forgive such a departure from his
principles especially when he can make a
good thing out of administering the punish
mentis quite credible. His system makes
this practicable in a double way. In the
first place he is the apostle of the great
project of a railroad combination which
shall force the people of the Northwest to
pay dividends on the watered stock that he
has been so successful in infusing into the
system. For the purpose of forcing that
combination he has first pushed tbe trans
continental lines into a rate war, and then
forcing the decline caused by that contest
into an absolute stock panic, he, with his
colleagues, buys up the property at less
than value, and hopes to force with one
band the publio to pay rates which will
make fictitious capital valuable, while with
the other he will repeat his old operation of
milking the corporation for his own private
advantage.
The report, whether true or not, presents
a marked illustration of the fatal vice of
our present railroad system in the advantage
which it gives to the unscrupulous and dis
honest over the honest element in railway
management For whether Mr. Gould has
actually got control of the Union Pacific or
not and is going to turn Mr. Adams out,
the fact remains that Mr. Adams would be
unable to prevent him from doing so, if he
should regard the Union Pacific as a prom
ising field for a second campaign. Mr.
Adams has not enriched himself at the cost
of the stockholders or the public. Mr.
Gould by twenty years adherence to that
policy has gained the financial power which
enables him to crush out the honest element
in railway management wherever it Is ob
noxious to him. He has control of compet
ing lines by which he can plunge the line
into a rate war; he has tha power in the
stock market to create a stock panic; and
finally he and his kindred spirits have the
wealth gained by similar operations in tbe
past to buy up the stock at a depreciated
price, kick out the more scrupulous mana
gers and resume their old line of operations
so long as the property will stand any more
plundering.
It is one of the most ominous features of
all our corporate abuses, that the successful
freebooters in the great corporations must
by the nature of the case triumph over and
extinguish those who cling to the principles
of business integrity.
THE HOPE OF CONSUMPTIVES,
Nothing in recent years has agitated the
medical world as has Prof. Koch's discovery.
From all parts of the Old "World and of the
New The Dispatch has procured ex
pressions of opinion upon the new curative
agent, and widely divergent as some of the
views are, the verdict seemi generally to favor
Dr. Koch. The caution of many of the
medical fraternity, both here and abroad, is
wise enough. Dr. Koch himself deprecates
to-day exaggeration of the lymph's powers,
and reminds the world that as yet the
remedy is in its experimental stage. Tbe
conservative attitude of the discoverer is in
deed a most promising feature in the case.
Science cannot gallop; it must feel its
way slowly and surely, and the triumph
of Dr. Koch will be all the grander in the
end if he works out the salvatU n of suffering
humanity without a single false step. Even
the most cautious and doubting, however,
cannot but admit that Dr. Koch's experi
ence, re-enforced by that of his colleagues, in
the use of the inoculating fluid is full of
promise.
A NEW CHANCE FOR GAS.
Manufacturers of iton will find very .solid
comfort in an article which The Dispatch
prints to-day upon economy in the use of
natural gas iu puddling furnaces. If Mr.
Bannister's premises are correct, the plain
deduction is that the mills will be able to
return to the use of gas under more advan
tageous conditions than ever before. The
bearing of these expert statements indeed
upon the whole fuel question is most im
portant and satisfactory.
It is interesting to learn from the "Wall
street journals that as a result of the recent
developments tho Northwestern passenger
traffic is to be pooled tinder an agreement "sim
ilar to that under which the Southwestern
freight pool is operated." It hardly seems
worth while to mention to the railroad kings
and their organs that the filth section of the
inter-State commerce law forbids pooling
None of them cars for a little thing like that
Grand RAriDS, Mich., celebrated the
paving of a street with fireworks ana a grand
ball. Some of the residents along certain
streets in Pittsburg would be glad to emulate
that example If they could only get the paving
finished.
The probability that m. F. Vilas will
not rule tho newly-elected "Wisconsin State
Legislature seems, to the Boston Traveller, to
be based on the fact that Bragg is in good
fighting trim. But the fact is that both "Vilas
and Brasg are dead issues in Wisconsin. The
Democracy of that State has set up for its
fetich a person whose idtocy is supposed to
humor and whose stupidity masquerades as
statesmanship in the form of Bad Boy Peck.
Possibly the Farmers' Alliance and
State Socialists will soon unite in asking the
rather pertinent conundrum whether It is bet
ter to have all tho railroads of tbo country
owned by the Government or by Jay Gould.
The disposition to cut down tbe big
salaries which are at present the principal
features of the Chicago World's Fair Is re
garded as an infringement on the Chicago
perquisites. There was an understanding less
than a year ago that Chicago was going to
furnish all the money for the fair; but that has
been entirely supplanted by tho idea that Chi
cago is to draw the salaries.
Ix cannot be possible that the elections
hit Baring Bros, as hard as it was asserted by
the Republican organs to have struck Wall
street
Mr. Reed has spoken of-his own account
sufficiently to present a theory agreeing with
THE PITTSBURG DISPATC&
that of Senator Sherman that the women who
went shopping and found prices raised did it
Messrs. Reed and Sherman seem to have it
forcibly borne in upon them by their investi
gations that "tbe hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that moves the world."
If the report is confirmed of a trust to
control all the ?eed warehouses of the country,
tho combination business will likely sow the
seed for a harvest of sprouts that will chastise
tbe trusts most severely.
Seventy-five million dollars of liabil
ities is a rather "stupendous penalty for too
much devotion to tho work of carrying the
loans of kite-flying South American republics.
Baring Bros, could not have done worse to
have stuck to tho moderately watered securi
ties of United States railways.
The most striking feature of that O'Shea
divorce suit yesterday was the disappearance
of Parnell. Whether the Irish leader will re
main permanently in retirement is for the
future to disclose.
The report that the alleged embarrass
ment of John Wanamaker was aided by a
squeeze of the money market on the part of
the Louisiana lottery, is calculated, if true, to
put financial embarrassment in the light of a
public credit
SUGGESTIVE PERSONALS.
Mr. Moody is growing much stouter than be
was, and a good deal of silver has crept into his
hair.
M. Taixe has just finished reading the proofs
of his book, "La Regime Moderne," in which
he deals with the Napoloonic period.
Br. Patji. GiBiER,Director of the New York
Pasteur Institute, is going to Berlin to investi
gate Dr. Koch's new method of curing tuber
culosis. Alexandre Dumas, novelist and dramatist
is a generous and cultivated art collector, his
private gallery of modern pictures being con
sidered the finest in Paris,
Mrs. Maud Howit Elliott, the Boston
novelist, is a woman of great beauty. She is of
medium height, with a fair complexion and a
pair of expressive brown eyes. Her hair Is
brown and curly.
The renowned Spanish fencer, Baron San
Malato, has returned to Paris from America.
One result will be tbe issue of 100 photographs
of attitudes of defence and attack in fencing
for which the Baron has posed.
Mr. Charles Gibson, an eminent Amer
ican lawyer, on whom the German Emperor's
grandfather conferred various decorations, has
received from His Majesty the Crown Order of
the First Class.
C. F. Gunther, the Chicago confectioner,
possesses among his manuscripts several that
are almost invaluable. Some of tbem are the
tho originals of "Home, Sweet Home," Burns's
"Auld Lang Syne" and Newman's "Lead
Kindly Light."
s "Colonel Ingersoll," says one of his
friends, "keenly realizes tho fact that he can
never have a career in politics, legislation or
statesmanship, and can never bold any im
portant office under the Government for which
ho fought"
William MgAleeb, Congressman-elect
from the Third Pennsylvania district is in
Louisville in tho interest of a rich Philadelphia
syndicate which is about to close a deal in
Eastern Kentucky mineral lands which in
volves over $2,000,000.
The Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Tal
mage, preaches to the largest audience In
Brooklyn, was a sailor boy. It was in tbis ca
pacity that he arrived in San Francisco, where
ho remained some time, and then went to Bos
ton to study for tho ministry.
Joseph Chamberlain, who says he came
over this time to enjoy the vaunted New En
gland autumn, struck a spell of weather that
must hare reminded blm of London at its
worst and he has gone home again, convinced
that tbe much-praised glories of New England's
autumns aro mythical.
PERPETUAL EIRE.
Cresset-Stones in English. Churches Form
erly Used for Preserving; Fire.
From the CornhlllMagatlne.
There exist still a few a very few contriv
ances for this perpetual fire in our churches:
they go by the name of cresset-Btonea. The
earliest I know is not in England, but is in tbe
atrium outside tbe remarkable church of S.
Ambrogio at Milan. It is a block of white
marble on a molded base, now broken, but
banded together with iron. It stands 3 feet 10
inches higb, and is 2 feet 6 inches in diameter
at top. It consists of a flat surface in which
aro depressed nine cuplike hollows. These
were originally filled with oil, and wicks were
placed in tbem and ignited.
In England one is still in situ, in the church
of Lewannick, In Cornwall. There it is not far
from tbo door. It consists of a circular block
containing on its flat upper surface, which is 22
inches across, 7 cup-like hollows 4 inches
deep. The stone stands on a rudely molded
baso, octagonal, and is in all about 2 feet 6
inches high. In Furness Abbey, among the
ruins, has been found another, with 5 cups
in it; at Calder Abbey another, with 16 such
cups tor oil ana wicks. At i one is another
with G such fire-cups, and at Stockholm
another with the same number, in a square
stone table. At Wool Church, Dorset, is again
another example built into the south wall of a
small chapel on the north side of tbe chancel.
Is is a block of Purbeck marble, and has in the
top 5 cup-shaped cavities quite blackened with
tbe oil and smoke. In some of the examples
there are traces of a metal pin around which
tho wick was twisted.
ILLUSTRIOUS LEAD.
An Enumeration of the Burial Places
of
Some of England's Prominent Men.
From the New Tort World.
Westminster Abbey does not contain tbe
dust of all tho illustrious of the earth. In the
church of St Michael, London, is the urn in
which was deposited the head of King James
IV. of Scotland, tho slaughtered King of
Flodden Field; in the chancel of St. Margaret
is buried the headless body of Sir Walter
Raleigh; St Paul's contains the sarcophagus
of the Duke- of Wellington; Richard Baxter,
the author of the "Saint's Rest" Is buried
in Christ Church: tbo poet Gray sleeps not far
from the "spreading yew" of which he sings in
his "Elegy:" while in Bunhlll Fields lie John
Bunyan, Isaac Watts, the hymn writer, and
Daniel Defoe.
How Congress Stood.
From tbe Washington Post.
The following tabulation shows the political
make-up of Congress from 1872 to 1892.
fokty-third congress.
Republican Senate: Kepublican House, 1872.
fokty-fourtii congress.
Bepublican Senate: Democratic House, 1S74.
FORTY-FITTH CONGRESS.
Bepublican Senate: Democratic' Honse, 1878.
FOBTT-SnCTH COKOBESR.
Democratic Seuate: Democratic Honse,
FOBTT-SEVENTII CONGRESS.
Bepublican Senate; Bepublican House,
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Bepublican Senate: Democratic House,
1878.
1830.
1882.
FORTY-MIHXn UUUKKSS.
Bepublcan Senate: Democratic Honse, 1834.
FIFTIETH CONGBE58,
Bepnbllcan Senate; Democratic House. 1886.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Bepublican Senate; Bepublican House, 1888.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Bepublican Senate: Democratio Honse, 1892.
Egotistical People.
From the Saturday Bevlcw. J
"Sir." said the despairing sage to his able and
assiduous friend, "you have only two subjects,
yourself and me. I am sick of both." Boswell
had at least two subjects. Some people have
only one.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
John Dolan.
Bespected for his business abilities ana admired
by many friends, John Dolan, who died at bis
"Vlckroy street residence on Friday, will be re
membered by all who knew him. He was In his
55th year. The societies of which he was an hon
ored member, will attend his funeral this after
noon at 2 o'clock.
Genera) J. C. Starkweather.
Washington, November 15. General John C.
Starkweather, formerly of Wisconsin, the well
known brigade and division commander in the
Union army during the late war, died here this
morning.
ITMifriifciif I'fflrtNffiwirttifr'i inrimittjitoM
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 16,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Bad Luck That "Went With Two ,Gif ts Made
by Ex-Secretary "Whitney Election Bet
ting In New Tork City "Wear and Tear
of tho Stock Exchange.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.!
WHEN Mr. W. C. Whitney left Washington he
desired to express his esteem for Senator
Blackburn, of Kentucky, and for Colonel O. O.
Stealey, tbe Washington representative of
Colonel Henry Watterson. "I have two lovely
big St. Bernard dogs," he said to the corre
spondent one day, "and I'm going to give one
to you and one to Joe. They cost me S1.000 im
ported." Of course both Kentuckians were
delighted. The Courier-Journal man laughed
his best winning horse-langh, and the stalwart
blue grass Senator placed both arms about the
ex-Secretary's neck and wept his customary
bovine tears of joy and good-fellowship. The
other day Mr. Whitney met Colonel Stealey on
Broadway and inquired after tho animals. If
it was to divert the Colonel's mind from the
unpleasant results of the recent election the
charm worked.
"Those dogsl Look here, Whitney, I never
had such luck. Blackburn and I went to seo
you about those dogs. Joe broke his rib and
several of hH legs, and then his dog died and
let up on him. Mine cost me 81 a day for some
time, and I lost every time I went around a
race track. Then it bad 13 pups lovely ani
mals but 131 Think of that I was actually
frightened and wrote to Joe. He said it was an
unlucky number, but advised me to hang on to
the pups to grow 'em they were worth
money. He spoke for the secand pup at once. I
wrote him he shouldbave halr.bntas there were
13 and it wouldn't do to cut a $50 dollar dog in
two, I'd make it six apiece and we'd give tho
odd one to some man in bis district against
whom he entertained the greatest grudge. So
it was a go. Joe told some friends and I told
some friends, and between us we had applica
tions for upwards of CO pups at from $100 to
$250 each. For a time I began to think that a
dog farm would pay better than tho newspaper
business. Well, instead of taking advantage
of the market and selling out my stock I fol
lowed Joe's advice and hung on. Allatonco
the mother got sick and tho pups died yes,
sir. died, every mother's son of tbem. Aud the
market fell flat ThirteenI I would not take
$13 over a counter in change. I'd give it to the
cash boy."
Mr. Whitney readjusted his glasses on bis
aristocratic nose, and giving that feature an
angle of 45 degrees, inquired what became of
the unhappy mother.
"Oh. I've farmed her out for 60 cents a day
and I'm hustling around trying to make money
to pay her board. You haven't got a giraff or
something to trade for her? No. The worst
of tbe whole thing is, don't you know,
everybody tells me the first litter of the St
Bernard never lives. I don't know any more
about dogs than you do about a New York
election. Both of us thought we knew it all.
The gras3 is just sprouting on the graves of the
13pupsl Well, good day Whitney. Excuse
me but. you know, Pve got to scratch around
for that dog's board.
A Little Cash on tho Stage.
''Those who are not behind the scenes will be
surprised to learn on how little money
some of the dramatic attractions are started.
Perhaps some of the actors who have to walk
back to New York annually by reason of this
would not be surprised, but I refer to the gen
eral public Take tbe play, for instance, called
"Natural Gas," which proved quite s success
last season. It was started on scarcely $000.
The play netted $27,000 in one season. It was
brought out by John Russell, later of the "Citv
Directory" company, and Messrs. Donnelr,
Girard and Gilbert The last three put up $200
each, while Russell against this immense capi
tal put in his experience, his pull with the man
agers, which enabled him to get dates; his
financial standing with lithograph firms, which
enabled the company to get their printing on
credit Russell was also in the good graces of
the leading photograpners, who furnished the
pictures of tho company. The play proved a
great success financially.
There is another instance in the late "Hen
drlk Hudson" Company, with Fay Templeton
as the star, although the result was not quite
as happy lor the managers as was that which
attended tho production of "Natural Gas."
Lykens, the manager of Fay Templeton, who
raised a great row with his backers when the
concern went to pieces, had not a dollar in the
world and was living on his cheek at a New
York hotel when he received a letter from Fay
Templeton Informing him of her hard luck m
Paris. Bhe had pawned ber diamonds those
famous diamonds which formed tbe remark
able Custom House case and was out of a job.
She offered to come to America and be man
aged by anybody that could raise about $1,500.
Lykens struck a man by tho name of
Unaverzagt who had a little money and re
vealed tbe plot to him. He succeeded in get
ting $2,000 out of him, and on that small
amount fully equipped a company and bought
out the play called "Hendrik Hudson."
Everybody knows the result It seems a little
queer that enterprises involving really $10,000
to $20,000 should be started by experienced
men on such small capital. If every now and
then one falls through for want of cash to pay
salaries, there is no surprise manifested among
theatrical experts.
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Politics Too Much for Him.
MO, I didn't vote," said a friend of mine. I
met him on Broadway a couple of days
after the election. He is an artist of consider
able ability, and is well known for his lovely
water colors. "I don't know anything about
politics," he continued. "I haven't had time
in my life to devote myself to tho subject of
what party is best fitted for the control of the
Government I don't know anything about tbe
tariff. I don'- know who I want for Mayor I
don't know who I want for President I don't
care who holds the offices. Things seem to run
alone well enough to suit me under any cir
cumstances. There was a man up in my studio
the other day and tried to give me instructions
as to how to get my ballot in, but it was too
much for me. I don't recollect of over having
voted in my life. You may think it a little
singular, but I don't make it a business to he
posted on political subjects. You see. I do not
object to the trouble of going to the polls if
I knew whom to vote for. If I only know what
principles were at stake, if 1 only knew what 1
was voting for, as well as for whom I was
voting, but I do not, you see. It is waste time
to try to keep up with political events. It
doesn't interest me in the least lam here to
day and there to-morrow. Sometimes a year
in tbis country, sometimes a year abroad. You
may think it humiliating to make this confes
sion, but I only confess to an ignoranco which
is very common. Tho difference is that the
majority of the people affect to know more
about these things, and when they vote, know
just as little as I do." .My friend laughed.
"I went down to the polls the other aay,"
said he, "and took a look at the new arrange
ments, thinking possibly I might try the experi
ment. The friend who instructed me was very
anxions that I should vote. Perhaps I should
have done so, but he Degan to talk to me about
the tariff, about McKinley, about Tammany,
about Congress, about Boss Piatt, about the
Municipal League ana about every other politi
cal tomfoolery.until Iwas thoroughly disgusted
and knew much less then than when he began.
You see, he overdid it It was too much. Sol
didn't vote."
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Betting on the Election.
TiynrLE not as much money changed hands
during the recent local election in this
city as did in the last general election for Presi
dent there was a good deal of "boodle" to be
seen floating around one or two days before
the end of the campaign. On the last night
preceding the election the Art Gallery, other
wise bar of tbe Hoffman House, wa3 the scene
of a good deal of sporting excitement Men
went about with money between their fingers
like fakirs in front ot a side show and bookies
on a race track offering so much on Grant, so
much on this man and so much on another,
naming the odds and stakeholders. Every
time a deal was made a little crowd would con
gregate around those making it as If they
really desired to See what kind of money was
being handled and how much there was of it
Tbe chief stakeholder of tbe Hoffman House
is Billy Edwards, ex-prize fighter. Edwards
held a little over $20,000 stakes put up the very
last night of the campaign in that cafe. He
says ho held only from $30,000 to $33,000 tho last
night of the Cleveland and Harrison campaizn.
Tbe betting was of course wholly local this
time and ho didn't carry a dollar ot money put
up on anything but the local election. This was
indicative of tho interest taken by sporting
men, at least in the result here.
Wall Street and Tho Nerves.
T happened to step into a broker's office on
Broad streetJMonday, to see a friend. There
were two men aud a broker at the ticker, and
the tape was being reeled off through the
patent machine and through six sets of hands.
"Can't buy anything to-day," cried the broker.
"Got enough on our hands nowi"
Tbe man seemed to be very much excited,
while the other fellows never for one moment
let go of the tape or turned their eyes from the
figures. I did not understand at the moment
what tbi3 meant, but I lost no time in getting
out of the way. On reading the evening paper
with the account of the panto on Wall street
and the death of Mr. Struthers, the true In
wardness of tho situation in the broker's office
flashed upon me. It is a wonder to anybody
who sees tbe scramble on the floor of tbe Stock
Exchange, on such occasions as that of Monday;
that more men do not drop dead. Mr. Struth
ers is not tbe only Individual who has died iu
the Stock Exchange with his boots on. Under
very similar Circumstances tbe Vice President
of the Stock Exchange, Mr. A. R. Hill, died in
'87. The excitement consequent upon tbe
fluctuations of the market is too much for
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human nature to bear, at least to bear very
long. No wonder these men become white
hatred before tbeir time. That broker I saw on
Monday was on the verge of apoplexy himself.
He acted and talked like a crazy man.
Charles T. Murray.
THE BHE AKD BULLET.
An African Sportsman Relates tho Kind Ho
Prefers, and the Execution They Do.
From the Illustrated News of the World.l
The veteran sportsman, great African trav
eler and geographical explorer. Sir Samuel
Baker, insists on the use of solid bullets, weigh
ing 050 grains, which should be of hard moral
lie compound lor thick-skinned animals, but
for lions, tigers, and large deer should be of
pure lead; this latter bullet will go through the
body, not breaking up into little pieces like the
hollow bullet, but will expand, by pressure
against tbe bones and sinews, to a flattened
front width, about an inch and a half. It may
then be stopped by the inner surlace of the
skin on the opposite side of the body, and so
much the better, for the animal is then brought
to tho ground with tho full force of the stroke,
reckoned at 3,520 pound3 to the square foot
with a .577 bore rifle, a powder charge of six
drachms, and a solid bullet If the bullet
passes out of tbo body on the other side, a por
tion of tbe force is lost
But for elephants and other largo thick
skinned beasts. Sir Samuel Baker recommends
a still more powerful weapon, the "Paradox,
No. 12." or tho "Paradox. No. 8," with a bullet
of 1 ounces, even 3 ounces for the No. 8, and
a charge of 10, 12, or more drachm3 of powder.
Only strong men could use such firearms as
these, but tho author once had a rifle that car
ried a three-ounce spherical bullet, four-ounce
conical, or half-pound shell, with a propelling
charge of 16 drachms. There were giants in
those days. The rifle, made at Bristol in 1810,
weighed 21 pounds, and was his companion
many years in Ceylon.
THE SCOPE OF MIHD.
Could Men Distinguished in One Sphere of
Life Have Excelled in Another.
From the Pall Mall Budget
In our own country, turning nearer home, is
not the most successful of our generals also
one of the most successsul of our writers? Can
anyone doubt that Lord Wolseley might have
made himself a first-class reputation with his
pen if he had never touched a sword in his life,
far less wielded the commander's batonf It is
very strange.
Are we to suppose that, at bottom, the energy
of mind is much the same, after all, which goes
to make a Cresar or a Shakespeare, to equip
Newton or Napoleon? Might George Mere
dith, under another star, have created the
combinations of Metz, and drawn the iron ring
round Paris? Might Hellmuth Moltke, start
ing from Mr. Meredith's cradle, have written
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel?"
Whether the man who leads to a breach and
the man who writes a book ara really molded
of the same intellectual clay or no, one thing is
certain, tho tendency of modern conditions is
to approximate them more and more. More
and more in modern warfare is it possible for a
Moltke to treat the field as a chessboard, and
to meet a warm eulogy, as with characteristic
modesty Moltke met it so recently as a few
years ago, with the reflection, "Well, I don't
feel sure now whether I could set a battalion
iu the field."
f LIBERAL CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
Organization of a Non-Sectarian AHlanco
Among Western Christians.
Chicago, November 15. The first session of
the new-formed "Liberal Christian Alliance"
to-day concluded its work, after electing Bavid
Swing President and other officers. Ex-Senator
and Minister Palmer is a trustee-elect The
following preamble and constitution was
adopted:
"Believing that a better and more spiritual
Interpretation of Christianity is everywhere
needed in our time, and that thero ought
to be more fellowship and union in spirit
and work among liberal Christians, this asso
ciation is formed for the purpose of promoting
these ends.
"Article 1 This association shall be unde
nominational. "Article 2 Its basis shall be an undenomi
national Christianity, or the right of private
judgment in tbe interpretation and right of
private conscience in action and religion.
"Article 3 Tho Liberal Christian Alliance
shall in no way disturb either tbo Independents
or the existing denominational relations of
affiliating denominations of churches.
"Article 4 This association invites the fel
lowship of all in sympathy with its aim."
PASSPORTS ABROAD.
They Are More Necessary Now Than Before,
and Americans Need Them.
American subjects should never travel on
the Continent of Europe without a passport
Tbe regulations, once so stringent were grad
ually relaxed for some time before the Franco
Prussian war. Thoy have now been brought
back in their original force. While absolutely
essential for Germany. Austria, Greece, Portu
gal, Russia and Turkey, they should not be
omitted in France, Spam or any other country
where the rigor is not so intense.
If you receive a registered letter, addressed
to any Poste Restante offlce iu France where
you happen not to bo well known, and cannot
produce your passport no entreaties will ena
ble you to obtain possession of that letter.
Students who wish to enter the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, to read at the Bibllotheque Nation
ale, to copy in the public art galleries, all must
be provided with a passport
THE MYSTERY OF FIRE.
How It Puzzled the Ancients, and How They
Endeavored to Ascertain Its Origin.
C'ornhlU Magazine.
We can well understand what puzzlement the
fire was to primitive man. He could not make
ont its nature; was It a being, an animal, a god
or what?
It is, perhaps, hardly wonderful that he asso
ciated it with life; he could not understand
what caused the animal heat of the body, and
as bo saw tbat when lire departed the body
waxed cold, he supposed that the human frame
contained an internal flame or fire. Even in an
Arabic romance, Yokdan, the hero, anxious to
discover what life really is, opens tbe heart of
an animal as it dies, and discovers a little blue
flame which leaves the cavity of the heart as he
observes it
What a Woman Can Do.
From Stead's Beylew of Beylews.
Anything tbat teaches us what a woman can
do without ceaslcg to be womanly, by quicken
ing the impulse of women to aspire and break
down the barrier of prejudice that keeps them
from attempting to do tbeir best, makes more
for tbe world's progress than many a score of
Parliamentary debates or great political dem-'
onstrations.
African Exploration.
From the New York Sun.
Recent disclosures are calculated to en
lighten folks who have often wondered what
would have become of African explorers if
they had stayed at home Instead of going to
Africa. It's quite plain that the majority
would have been hanged aud some lynched.
Rapid Transit Pays.
From the Baltimore American.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad in New
York has a gross income of $10,000,000; and yet
when it was built there were many people who
said it would not pay. It always pays to give
tbe people rapid transit in large cities.
Wall Street
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
There is satisfaction in the reflection that tbe
country no longer goes to everlasting smash
every time Wall street jumps on the market.
A GRANDFATHER'S TRIBUTE TO HIS
WIPE.
When in the first fair flush or happy youth,
I looked with loving eyes upon thy face.
It seemed to me 1 there could find, in truth,
Ihe perfect type of beauty and of grace.
And as the bells rang out their gladsome chime
That day when we were wed. I did not dream
That ever, with the mellowing of time,
Could that sweet face of thine more lovely
seem.
Yet, as I see thee now thy crown of white;
The glory of thy motherhood; tho lines
Upon thy brow and cheek, marks of time's
flight;
The many sweetnesses thy life combines
Ilethlnks that in my youth my Judgment erred.
Despite tby beanty. seeming so benign.
This heart of mine hath never been so stirred
As by the loveliness that now Is thlne.
John KcndricK Jiangs tn Harper1 1 Weekly.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Hoodooed.
A bio office building in the heart of this city
" Is suffering just now from what appears
to be a genuine hoodoo. It began about two
years ago, when one of tenants failed. No
body thought any the worse of the suite of of
fices tben because a bankrupt had vacated
tbem, and a new tenant came in at once. He
had a good reputation, a long-established busi
ness and other desirable qualities. Six
months after be moved in the Sheriff
sold him out Tben the offices were
empty for several weeks. A broker, however,
appeared and was accepted as a tenant He
paid three months' rent and disappeared under
a cloud at the end of that time. The next
tenant found the shadow of the; place too op
pressive and blew his brains ouffi This did not
serve to lighten the gloom or to enhance the
value of the property. Indeed, the looms were
locked up till last summer.
The last tenant was a railroad man, and he.
being a stranger, was easily taken In. But
when the history of bis predecessors reached his
ears one day last week he packed up the dot
ting pads, the ink bottle and the advertising
circulars, which form every respectable rail
road agent's stock In trade, and moved without
notice.
It does look like a hoodoo, doesn't it?
The Cheapest
TX7HAT cigars do you smoke?"
"Other people's, mostly," replied
Hardup.
Waste of Time.
"jTES- Carter has shown herself to be an
actress of ability, I see," said Blnks.
"Yes she needn't have been divorced at all,"
said Jinks.
Before tho Opera.
'There are some points about the coming
season ot grand opera at the Duquesne
Theater which make it noteworthy even before
the event The repertoire has a wide range to
begin with. It Is arranged as follows: Monday
evening, "The Huguenots;" Tuesday evening,
"Regoletto;" Wednesday evening, "Lohen
grin;" Thursday evening, "Faustr" Friday
evening, "Tho Flying Dutchman;" Saturday
matinee. "Trovatore;" Saturday evening,
"IAfrlcaine." Three of these operas are
practically new to Pittsburg. "The Hugue
nots" has not been heard here for about
a dozen or fifteen years, and. if I am informed
correctly, was last given by the Kellogg and
Carey company under Strakosch. "L'Af ricaine"
has not been sung here in this generation, if
several good musical authorities may be be
lieved. "The Flying Dutchman," strange to
say, has steered clear of Pittsburg since tbe
early sixties, when it was performed by a Ger
man opera company. Even "Lohengrin" is a
comparative stranger, and its last appearance
here was with Locke's American Opera Com
pany, on which occasion it will be remembered
that Emma Juch was billed to assume tbe role
of Elsa, and, owing to sickness, had to give way
to Mde. Pierson.
The principals are well known Emma Juch,
Georgiana von Januschowsky, Mr. Payne
Clark, leading tenor in the Carl Rosa Opera
Company, and Mr. Otto Ratbjens, a barytone,
of whom great things are promised. The man
agers evidently have plenty of confidence in
Ratbjens, or they would not have included
"Rigoletto" and the "Flying Dutchman" in
the repertoire, for in both of these operas the
barytone is the leading role.
Vanished.
(iVTJhere'S the Indian summer?"
"Gone with the Indians. I guou."
He Was a Democrat
iiTJIht do they say the Republicans are eat
ing crow, papa?"
"Because they have cause, my son."
Bohemia.
"DOuemia 1 land of liberty I
Where many a man has longed to be.
With vasue Ideas of what yon are,
Kxcept that laws and things that Jar
Upon man's will have there no place
'Twere well if you were better known;
If ltis were sung about your grace,
And more abont your shadows shown.
Bohemia l lauded oft of men.
And sought Dy woman now and then.
The poets speak you very fair
You do not bid them cut their hair.
If all they say or sing be true.
Your clouds are but tobacco smoke.
That cannot hide the skies of blue,
And life with you Is but a Joke.
But O Bohemia 1 is it so?
Do winds unruly never blow?
Are debts and duns with you unknown?
Are all your castles built of stone?
Poor empty hearts and heads that achat
The truth Is bitter, bnt It stands;
You'll find It out when you awake,
Bohemia's not the best of lands.
And when the raee is nearly run.
When Death Is whlsperlugi "Have done!"
How looks the wine 1 does sunshine stlU
Langb In tbe vineyard's ruddy rill?
The boon companions, Phryne, too
Where are your merry fellows Sown?
Life's all they love 'tis left to you
To answer death's dread call alone.
Hepburn Johns.
FAST PNEUMATIC TUBES.
They Are "Working Well In New York and
Slay be Rnn to Philadelphia.
From tbe New York Press. 1
Tbe proposition to unite New York and Phil
adelphia by pneumatic tubes, which will re
quire but 25 minutes for transmission, is en
tirely feasible. Tbe pneumatic tube between
Twenty-third street and the Western Union
building in this city takes letters up and down
town in three or four minutes, and there Is no
reason why the system should not be widely ex
tended over the country.
Healthy Growth Only.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegram.
Although this is a big country, with room
enough for all sorts of isms and cranks to flour
ish in it. Socialism and Anarchism do not ap
pear to take deep root and grow.
THE OEEAT DISCOVEBY.
New York Tdbune: There can bo little
doubt that he has made a discovery of tbe first
importance.
New York Commercial-Advertiser: The
public will watch developments with an inter
est proportionate to tbe Importance of the sub
ject New York World: The final revelation
cannot now be long delayed, but until it is made
tbe attitude of physicians toward the matter
will be one of hopeful suspension of judgment
New York Times: The experiments of
Prof. Koch in search of a substance by the use
of" which tbo tubercle bacillus, and with it
tubercular diseases, can be overcome, excite
the greatest interest throughout the civilized
world.
Philadelphia Press: Dr. Koch Is a phy
sician of world-wide renown. He has appar
ently chosen to use bis conspicuous position to
give a conspicuous instance of tbe sound wis
dom of the professional rule tbat a remedy shall
bo announced for general practice only when
all the steps in its preparation and use can be
given to the medical world.
PHlLADELPHlAiJecord.' Whatever shall re
main to be told in tbe succeeding chapters, or
whatever measure of success may immediately
attend tbe introduction of tbo new agent for
checking the spread of tuberculosis, enough is
already known to place tbe name of Koch
among the immortals of medical science, and
with the best of titles to immortal fame that
of benefactor of his fellow-me'n.
New York Herald: It is a thrilling story of
a man of science grappling with ono of the
darkest mysteries of disease. As far as it is
now possible to judge Prof. Koch's is the most
hopeful attempt ever mado to cope with the
great wasting malady of mankind a disease to
which at least one-seventh of our death rate is
attributable and which lays low the very pnde
and flower of the race.
New York Sun: It is not what the Berlin
doctor has discovered thus far that is of tbe
highest interest to the medical faculty. It is
tbe suggestlven'ess ot Dr. Koch's discoveries
that is the most Important thing about them.
They open up a prospect that science may yet
give us the means of curing many diseases that
have always been regarded as incurable.
If Dr. Koch'a method of treatment be
justified by experience, we may look for a great
advance in tbe science ot medicine within tbs
next few years.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The greater part of the ocean ted h
pitch dark.
The raven has been taught to retrieve;
most creditably.
An instance is on record of a pigeon
flying 23 miles in U minutes. e
It is estimated that $30,000,000 will bo
expended in Western Washington during the
next two years in railroad construction.
It is said that in the northern lakes of
England the loon ha3 been taken 40 feet under
water upon hooka baited for the large lake
trout
In Ireland, belbre St Patrick intro
duced Christianity, tnere was a temple at Tara,
where fire burned ever, and was on no account
suffered to go out
The best speed of a railway train is only
a little more than half the velocity of tbo
golden eagle, tho flight of which often attains
to the rate of 110 miles an hour.
Of all birds, the condor mounts highest
into the atmosphere. Humboldt describes tbe
flight of this bird in the Andes to be at least
20,000 feet above the level of the sea.
The Duke of Beaufort upou one occa
sion picked np a brace of grouse which had
canoned and killed each other in midair, and
colliding i3 not an infrequent occurrence.
The submarine war-boat has led to the
flying of balloons from war-ships. A balloon
hovering over a ship can detect every move
ment ot a submarine boat coming to the at
tack. Among the legends of the early Celtio
saints nothing is more common than tbe story
of the saint being sent to borrow fire, and car
rying it in his lap without the firs Injuring his
garment
According tosuperstition corpse-candles
are no other than human souls dancing over the
graves where their bodies lie, or the souls ot
dead relatives coming to fetch those who are to
rejoin them.
Every year a layer of the entire sea, 14
feet thick, is taken up into the clouds. The
winds bear tbeir burden into tbe land and the
water comes down in ram upon the fields, to
flow back through rivers.
A magnificent specimen of the white
pelican was shot a few days ago at sea oft
Wbitstable, England. Tbis bird is a native ot
Africa and India, and is aIo found in tbe
southern provinces ot Eastern Europe.
The French are endeavoring to train
swallows, the Germans pigeons, and tbe Rus
sians falcon's. Whether tho falcons are them
selves to convey messages, or are to be used to
cut down tbe swallows and pigeons while so
engaged, is not stated.
In Paris the simplest form of embalm
ing costs usually about 00 francs, but should
autopsy have been performed, or death occur
ring through other than natural causes, a much
heavier sum would be incurred, rising in some
cases to as much as 5,000 irancs.
The surface of the sea is alive with vast
swarms of minute organisms, both plants and
animals, and tbe "Challenger" investigations
have shown conclusively that showers of these
keep dropping day and night like a constant
rain toward the ooze of the bottom.
Upon one occasion a falcon was observed
to cut a snipe right In two, with such strength
and speed did it cut down its) prey. Sparrow
hawks and merlins have not infrequently been
known to crash through thick platu-glaiS
windows when in pursuit of prey, or at caed
birds.
The wings of a fly are used with great
quickness, and probably 600 strokes are made
per second. This would carry the fly about 2
feet but a sevenfold velocity can easily ba at
tained, making 175 feet per second, so that un
der certain circumstances it can outstrip arace
horse. The enormous appetite of the giant
penguin (which weighs about 0 pounds) may
have something to do with its restricted powers
of flight and in tbe stomach of one of these
Ross found 10 pounds of quartz, grauite, and
trap fragments, swallowed most likely to pro
mote digestion.
The cost of a grave in the Paris ceme
teries is uniform, and has been raised ot late to
29; this, of course, is in perpetuity. At most
of the cemeteries ground can be rented for five
years at a charge of 50 francs for the term, and
can generally be renewed at tho end of this
period for at least a second term.
A monument is to be erected by the
State of Minnesota, to commemorate tbe bat
tles and incidents of the Sioux Indian War ot
1862. and especially as tbey relate to the town
of New Ulm in that State. The burning of the
town and the massacre ot the whites are to ba
shown in two elaborate bas-reliefs.
"Boston cockles," which are famous
over a very large area ot England, ara
gathered from the sands, parboded, shelled,
and in this half-cooked condition are sent by
railway in bags, chiefly to Bristol and the west
of England at large, where they are sold and
consumed as delicacies by the masses.
The stupendous monuments upon the
plain of Memphis and the "mountains made
with hands" upon that of Cholula seem like the
two ends of a chain of human thought and in
tent of which the connecting links are to be
found throughout Tartary, tho Eastern Penin
sula, China, Japan, and the isles of the North
ern Pacific
It is believed that there is no reason why
African elephants should not be tamed and
trained to the service of man. The Cartha
genian army of Hannibal possessed some ele
phants, but they may have been imported by
the Phoenicians from Ceylon. The natives of
Africa nowhere care for capturing and domes
ticating wild animals
In Cyclopean remains in the Pacific
there is recognized two distinguishing features,
the terrace foundations of dwellings consist
ing of two or more steps, which seem Identical
with the style still adhered to by Buddhist peo
ple, and the truncated pyramid of successira
steps, containing caves or chambers designed
for interment or for the celebration or religious
mysteries.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms,
where daylight disappears, the eyes of a fish
get constantly bigger and bigger. Beyond that
depth small-eyed forms set in, with long feelers
developed to supplement the eyes. Sight la
fact is here beginning to atrophy. In the
greatest abysses the fish aro mostly blind, feel
ing their way about entirely by their sensitive
bodies alone over the naked surface of rock at
the bottom.
A pigeon-fancier of Hamme, in "West
phalia, made a wager tbat a dozen bees liberated
three miles from their hive would reach it in
better time than a dozen pigeons would reach
tbeir cot from the same distance. Tbe com
petitors were given wing at Rbynhern, a vil
lage nearly a leagne from Hamme, and tha
first bee finished a quarter of a minute In ad
vance ot the first pieeon, three other bees
reached tha goal before the second pigeon, tha
main body ot both detachments finishing
almost simultaneously an instant or two later.
FUN AND FANCY.
Dashaway I have fallen into the bad
habit of talklnar to myself lately.
Cleverton I wondered why you were looking to
bored. Harper1 Uasar.
Sunday School Teacher And why do yon
say your prayers before vou go to your bed,
Johnny?
Johnny-'Ciuse I'd get licked if I didn't
Sparts. ,
"The world can't come to an end."
"Why not?" i
"It's a globe, and consequently there's no end
to it." Philadelphia Times.
"I see that Robinson and some of hi
friends have gone into building."
How do they expect to pay for it?"
rrney don't- It's a church." Hew XorkSun.
Ethel Of course, papa, I want to marry
blm. but you'll have to give me up, poor dear,
won't you?
Papa Welt my dear, that's true; but then we'll
get rid of your young man too, you see. Harper's
Jiaiar.
Clara How near through are vou with
that book?
Maud-All but the first three chapters Sat
IotK Sun.
"Good gracious, Arabella! "What areyott
doing out In such a storm?"
"Why, Tom, this Is bargain day."-arW.
"Where's Mamie?"
"I really don't know. She must bo at home,
though, for this Is her beau night."
"Well, I've looked all overthe house except the
parlor, and the light's not lit thora." rhtladet'
phia Times.
Sauso Brown is a fine fellow, but he has
never been the same since tbat accident happened
to him.
Eodd What accident?
Sauso Alter making bis fortune he got mashed .
on himself. A"w Xork Herald.
Miss Cutely "What do yoa regard as tha
most dlfflcult step in the progress of a diamond
from the mine to a lady's auger?
Jojon-Uuttllng for the luoro to bay It TM
leveUrs' Weekly.